USDA predicts record corn harvest

Monday, February 11, 2013 2:36 PM

Farmers will harvest a record
14.4 billion bushels of corn this year, the U.S. Agriculture Department
projected today, assuming mammoth plantings and a return to normal weather and
yields, Reuters
reported. Drought limited the 2012 U.S. corn crop to nearly 10.8 billion
bushels. The current record crop is 13 billion bushels in 2009.